I swear I remember a post many years ago from Tinman talking about having athletes do 4 weeks of something like 4x200 very hard (maybe some type of lactate buffering work) and seeing a few seconds come off their mile/1500 time. Anyone add this to their training sessions and see improvement?
If it was tinman it was more likely to have added a couple seconds.
If you have some HS athlete that is starting from zero of course they will see improvement, because ANY stimulus is going to show some results. It's all about context.
I mean it's a common hard sprint workout, if done ALL OUT. If you do it right, yeah it should help with speed endurance. I think every distance, especially mid-distance, should have these speed endurance days built in. 6x200 @ 400-600m pace would probably make more sense, though, and is more commonly done among mid-d athletes.
If it was Tinman, he probably meant adding 4x200 cut down at the end of a threshold or CV workout.
Appreciate it. And I'm aware of Tinman's 4x200's after a CV workout. But this was more around lactate buffering (very hard/short rest).
tacoFriday wrote:
Appreciate it. And I'm aware of Tinman's 4x200's after a CV workout. But this was more around lactate buffering (very hard/short rest).
We used to 3 sets of 4x150m with last 100m flat out, walk back recovery between runs, one lap jog between sets. That was definitely a lactate buffering one. Usually ended up on my back with a splitting headache.
Thanks. This is what I was kind of wondering if others did and if it helped a bit.